"Little things get little gods. It's only natural."

There are two diners in Athens, Ohio.

By Kelly Rose Pflug-Back 18 February 2013 Dr. Hansen presses the cold bell of her stethoscope agains...

8 March 2010 I almost had friends in 1965. Ryder was a brewer in those days, when brewing was a thin...

By K.M. Ferebee 4 June 2012 Part 1 of 2 There was a ghost in the hospital. They had told Keats this....

22 March 2010 Jaima Coleman isn't eating dessert tonight because they're cutting Duncan's wings off....

29 March 2010 I am Somadeva. I was once a man, a poet, a teller of tales, but I am long dead now. I ...

5 April 2010 After I opened my eyes they dressed me in silk. A bone-white gown slipped over my head ...

17 May 2010 What puzzles them, I can tell, is my control. I sit poised in my pew. No screaming or wa...

25 April 2005 2180 A.D./Stilt City, Eastern U.S.A. She was a conspiracy of perceptions: an enclosure...

22 August 2005 When I was little, I had the run of the lab. Sometimes I got into trouble. Once, I us...

15 August 2005 Mare didn't get forever. She had barely two more years before she failed a physical. S...

21 November 2005 Part 2 of 2 Read Part 1 here "You have problems last night?" Kancheli asked at brea...

14 November 2005 Part 1 of 2 Yamilah Reis held her breath. Her orbital bones ached from pressing aga...

19 September 2005 Part 2 of 2 Read Part 1 here I walked through the same dead town and through the s...

12 September 2005 Part 1 of 2 "Nobody to celebrate with?" I shook my head. "I know how you feel." "G...

By JY Yang 16 June 2014 You are most aware of building-think in bad weather. The night brought with ...

24 October 2005 Harriet's chicken came out of the incubator totally featherless. Just skin. At first...

By Yukimi Ogawa 9 June 2014 How convenient, this loose-fitting thing called a kimono. When the sky w...

26 October 2009 The superheroes sit in a back booth at Barnaby's Ye Olde Tavern and Pizza. It's not ...

By Michelle Ann King 2 June 2014 Jessica answers the phone without opening her eyes, knowing it'll b...

By Sunny Moraine 21 October 2013 On Tuesdays and Thursdays we go to feed the house. Zhan takes me. W...

By Yukimi Ogawa 11 March 2013 At the counter of a marriage agency at the end of the town, I felt my ...

By Damien Angelica Walters 6 January 2014 They teach you a lot of things in school, in training. One...

2 May 2011 Mkali is a proud woman. She knows it because everyone says so, though she's never thought...

By Élisabeth Vonarburg 30 June 2014 This story was selected for Strange Horizons by this week's repr...

By Jessica Barber 2 January 2012 The last song and dance number that Izzie Valdes performs in the El...

By Toh EnJoe 18 March 2013 Translated from the Japanese by Terry Gallagher. The Aharonov-Bohm-Curry-...

By Karin Tidbeck 4 March 2013 Then came that Thursday in February when I stepped into my psychiatris...

22 December 2003 Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning...